Ryan Marx’s Reviews > The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition > Status Update

The intro essay covers themes in Shakespeare’s work that spring from the world in which he wrote. 16th and 17th century minds thought differently about death, life, class, wealth, and women than we do now or even than the same people but in the 18th and 19th centuries.

I have not finished the introduction, so there will be more themes covered.

Fascinating and illuminating.